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A currency noose hanging around the neck of customers’ budgets in Europe looks set to throttle server spending, according to IDC. Appreciation of the US dollar has forced American tech makers to increase their prices this year on several occasions, and this disrupting impact is tipped to worsen as the unsettled economic and …

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    I feel this pain even on a small scale

    I buy server stuff on Ebay and books on Abebooks. Both are priced in USD so their prices have thus risen 30% in the past year. I have stopped buying until the USD drops.

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